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Work with the lawyer. Sell the farm and everything associated with it, except for the slaves. I would tell the lawyer that I am going to purchase land in Missouri and that I want to move the slaves there. Get all of their paperwork ready and get traveling papers ready for transport to Athens, MO.Get the slaves ready for transport. Buy my own barges. Travel with the paid steveadores up the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers to “insure that they do not damage my properties.”Encourage the slaves to learn how to manage the barges. Pay the steveadores to teach my slaves, as it may be an important skill for my slaves to have, living this close to the rivers.When we arrive in Athens, keep the slaves locked up on the barges and take the steveadores out for a celebration. Get them nice and drunk after distributing bank promissory notes for their wages.Go back to the barges. Unchain the men who learned how to navigate the barges and head north in the dead of night, across the Iowa border. Sell the barges at Ottumwa.Buy food, horses and wagons. We would travel on foot to the proposed site for the new Meskwaki Settlement in Tama, where I have purchased 200 acres of farmland, 100 oxen and 50 steel plows.Divide the land up into parcels, two acres per slave. Work with a local abolitionist attorney to get the slaves freed legally. Meet with the local Meskwaki leaders to create a new community with the freedmen and the Natives. Stay with them for a year or two, to make sure they get settled as free farmers. Transfer all deeds to the freemen before I return home.

Federal student loans are not subject to a statute of limitations, but private student loans are. A statute of limitations sets a clock that limits when a credit can sue a borrower to collect a debt. Debts for which the statute of limitations has expired are often referred to as time-barred.Be careful when talking with a collection agency, as there are many ways to reset the clock on time-barred debt. For example, if you make a payment on the debt, no matter how small a payment, the clock gets reset to zero.You have the right, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), to tell a collection agency to stop contacting you.The statute of limitations on federal student loans was eliminated by the Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991 (P.L. 102-26). Prior to this law, federal student loans had a 6-year statute of limitations. This statutory change eliminated statutes of limitation on all federal education loans, even loans made prior to 1991. This is why you should never, ever throw away any documentation relating to federal student loans. If you believe your loans were paid off in full, but you did not preserve the paid-in-full statement, you may have a difficult time proving that the loans were paid off if the loan magically resurrects itself.Statutes of limitation vary by state. It can be confusing which state’s laws apply. Possibilities include the borrower’s state of residence, the lender’s state of incorporation or a state specified in the promissory note.Statutes of limitation that apply to private student loans range from 3 years to 15 years. Other types of debt may have different statutes of limitation.3 YearsAlaskaArkansasDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaKansasMississippiNew HampshireSouth Carolina4 YearsCaliforniaNebraskaNevadaNew MexicoPennsylvaniaTexas5 YearsArizonaFloridaIdahoIowaMissouriNorth CarolinaOklahomaVirginia6 YearsAlabamaColoradoConnecticutGeorgiaHawaiiMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaNew JerseyNew YorkNorth DakotaOhioOregonSouth DakotaTennesseeUtahVermontWashington8 YearsMontana10 YearsIllinoisIndianaLouisianaRhode IslandWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming15 YearsKentucky

Victor Lustig was a con artist who undertook scams in various countries and became best known as "The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice."His first con was to show people a device that could print $100 bills. The only problem, he would tell them, is that it only prints one bill every six hours. Many people paid him enormous amounts of money (usually over $30,000) for the device. In fact, the device contained two real hidden $100 bills – once they were spat out by the machine it would produce only blank paper. By the time the buyers discovered this, Lustig was well gone with their money. At one point, Lustig convinced Al Capone to invest $50,000 with him. He stored the money in a vault and returned it two months later, stating that the deal had fallen through. Capone, so impressed by Lustig’s honesty gave him $5,000 for his effort.Charles Ponzi Charles 'The Ponz' Ponzi is, quite simply, one of the greatest swindlers in American history. The originator and copyright holder of the piece de resistance of his career, the "Ponzi Scheme". Back then, you could get coupons that could be redeemed for stamps in other countries. Ponzi noticed that back in Italy these coupons cost way less than the stamps in America. So, he figured that he could buy a billion of those coupons in Italy and then redeem them for the stamps in USA . He made 400 percent profit on each transaction, and didn't produce a single thing.George ParkerParker was one of the most audacious con men in American history. He made his living selling New York’s public landmarks to unwary tourists. His favorite object for sale was the Brooklyn Bridge, which he sold twice a week for years. He convinced his marks that they could make a fortune by controlling access to the roadway. More than once police had to remove naive buyers from the bridge as they tried to erect toll barriers.Other public landmarks he sold included the original Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant’s Tomb, and the Statue of Liberty. George had many different methods for making his sales. When he sold Grant’s Tomb, he would often pose as the general’s grandson. He even set up a fake “office” to handle his real estate swindles. He produced impressive forged documents to prove that he was the legal owner of whatever property he was selling.Soapy Smith JeffersonJefferson would open his “tripe and keister” (display case on a tripod) on a busy street corner. Piling ordinary soap cakes onto the keister top, he would describe their wonders. As he spoke to the growing crowd of curious onlookers, he would pull out his wallet and begin wrapping paper money ranging from one dollar up to one hundred dollars, around a select few of the bars. He then finished each bar by wrapping plain paper around it to hide the money. He mixed the money-wrapped packages in with wrapped bars containing no money. He then sold the soap to the crowd for a dollar a cake.A shill planted in the crowd would buy a bar, tear it open it, and loudly proclaim that he had won some money, waving it around for all to see. This performance had the desired effect of enticing the sale of the packages. More often than not, victims bought several bars before the sale was completed. Midway through the sale, Smith would announce that the hundred-dollar bill still remained in the pile, unpurchased. He then would auction off the remaining soap bars to the highest bidders.Through the masterful art of manipulation and sleight-of-hand, the cakes of soap wrapped with money were hidden and replaced with packages holding no cash. It was assured that the only money “won” went to members of what became known as the “Soap Gang.”(source: listverse)The Fox Sisters Kate, Margaret and Leah Fox .The younger two, Kate and Margaret, were only 10 and 12 when they convinced their parents they could talk with a household ghost through a system of knocks and raps. The girls would snap their fingers and the ghosts would respond, much to the amazement of all the people who populated the world in the 19-20th century.By the time big sister Leah got in the act, the three tricky Foxs had earned an international reputation as ghost-talkers and were making epic amounts of bucks with their other-worldly séances.David hamptonAn African-American con artist, his story became the inspiration for the famous movie "Six Degrees of Separation," as he assumed the identity of Sidney Poitier's son and was suddenly ushered in as celebrity.Hampton began employing the persona of "David Poitier" to cadge free meals in restaurants. He then persuaded at least a dozen people into letting him stay with them in their homes or to give him money, including Melanie Griffith, Gary Sinise, and Calvin Klein. He told some of them that he was a friend of their children, some that he had just missed his plane to Los Angeles and that all his luggage was on it, some that his belongings had been stolen.Frank Abagnale ( Of the Catch me if you can fame)(Source: me)John C. Mabray joined forces with Ben Marks in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they expanded on Marks' idea of a stage set as the hidden frame of the con. They ran faked athletic contests in which the mark was enticed to bet a fortune on a fixed horse race or boxing match, only to be chased away at the last moment by the threat of police involvement. Mabray and Marks ran so many people through their cons that they also created a giant administrative structure for keeping track of their dupes, their crew, and their profits. When the authorities finally caught up with them in 1909, they found a ledger indexing more than 300 men working under Mabray around the country. They also found 88 envelopes which contained notes on 88 swindles; the receipts in those envelopes added up to more than $5 million.William Elmer MeadMead was, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, "one of the shrewdest of confidence men." His claim to fame was his invention of the wallet drop, in which he planted a lost wallet for a mark to find that would lead him to an important businessman. The wallet's credentials would testify to its owner's authenticity, and the owner's gratitude at its return would serve as the prelude to the con itself. Mead planted wallets well into the 1930s, and even took one mark for a sum reported to be as high as $200,000, until he was finally arrested by Hoover's men.Larry SummerfieldLarry Summerfield is the most likely inventor of the wiretap swindle. Legend says that he was a former telegraph operator, and thus well positioned to splice the wires that led from horse racetracks to poolrooms and saloons. He and his cohort would hold back the results of a race just long enough to place bets on the winning horse, then collect their winnings before anyone realized what had happened. Very quickly, the wiretap went wireless. Swindlers began to sell marks the idea of setting up crooked gambling marks the idea of setting up crooked gambling dens. They'd show marks a cache of telegraphic equipment that, they claimed, allowed them to tap the racetracks' wires and control the transmissions. In reality, the equipment was bogus, a set to persuade marks to front the cash. In a later variation, the swindler claimed to have a crooked Western Union man on the take who would hold up the race results.Cassie Chadwick: Andrew Carnegie's "illegitimate daughter"Born as Elizabeth Bigley but later known as Cassie Chadwick, defrauded Cleveland-area banks by claiming to be an illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. At the age of 22, Cassie was arrested in Woodstock, Ontario for forgery but released on grounds of insanity. In 1882 she married Wallace Springsteen in Cleveland, Ohio; her husband threw her out eleven days later when he found out about her past. In Cleveland, she married a Dr. Chadwick.In 1897, Cassie began her largest, most successful con game: that of establishing herself as Andrew Carnegie's daughter. She faked a promissory note of $2 million with Carnegie's signature. The information leaked to the financial markets in northern Ohio, and banks begun to offer their services. For the next eight years she used this fake background to obtain loans that eventually totaled between 10 and 20 million dollars.(Source Huffington Post)Joseph "Yellow Kid" WeilThe Yellow Kid was the most famous con man of the early twentieth century. Chicago was his stomping ground, and his every deed was reported by the daily papers, who treasured his elegant clothes almost as much as his racy exploits. He ran the big con, giving solid, self-made businessmen the opportunity to ratchet up their wealth with an inside track to the world of high finance. His cons regularly netted him $25,000-$50,000 at a time. In the late 1920s, he swindled Mussolini out of $2 million. It is that he stole over $8 million in his long life, though he reformed his dastardly ways in the late 1940s and published his tell-all memoir to great acclaim.Ferdinand Demara: improvised successful surgeries as a fake surgeon.Born in Massachusetts in 1921, he joined the U.S. Army in 1941 and began his new live by borrowing the name of his army buddy Anthony Ignolia. He then faked his suicide and borrowed another name, Robert Linton French, and became a religiously-oriented psychologist.A string of pseudo-academic careers followed. He was, among other things, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher.He never seemed to get much monetary gain in what he was doing - just temporary respectability. His most famous exploit was to masquerade as surgeon Joseph Cyr on the HMCS Cayuga, a Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War. He managed to improvise successful surgeries and fend off infection with generous amounts of penicillin. This worked until the mother of the real Dr. Joseph Cyr found out and reported it.Demara returned to the U.S., inspired the 1960 film "The Great Imposter," and died on 1982 as a Baptist minister.Mary BakerOn 1817, a cobbler in England, met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes who was speaking a language no one could understand. Locals brought many foreigners who tried to find out what strange language the lady was talking, until a Portuguese sailor "translated" her story: she was "Princess Caraboo" from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean. She had been captured by pirates, then jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swam ashore. For the next ten weeks, this representative of exotic royalty was a favourite of the local dignataries. She used a bow and arrow, fenced and prayed to God, whom she termed Allah Tallah. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers. Eventually the truth came out: she was actually a cobbler's daughter, Mary Baker, from Devon. She had been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay. She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character. She continued her role in the USA, France and Spain without the same luck. Her story was the basis of the 1994 movie "Princess Caraboo", written by John Wells.Milli VanilliA pop vocal duo composed of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus was formed in Germany in the mid-1980s. The duo started to grow worldwide rapidly in 1988 and won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 1990. And then, in that same year, during a 'live' performance recorded by MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Connecticut, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, resulting in one of the most embarrassing moments in popular music history. The truth was revealed: the Milli Vanilli sound was actually created by Frank Farian featuring the vocal talents of other singers, and Morvan and Pilatus did not sing at all on the records. After this, the Grammy Award they received was stripped from them, and at least 26 different lawsuits were filed under various U.S. consumer fraud protection laws against Pilatus, Morvan and Arista Records.( source: Swindling Con Artists)